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Pastoral Guidelines for Inter-Religious Observances of 9/11

By Rev. Kristen Glass Perez   Introduction: This year will mark the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001.  That day holds great significance for people in different ways including the families of those who died in the attacks and in...

New Christian Science Bibliography Marks Bicentennial Birthday of Founder, Mary Baker Eddy

  July 16, 2021, marks the bicentennial of Christian Science founder, Mary Baker Eddy’s birth. Ms. Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author, who in addition to founding the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1879,  founded the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

A Step Along the Journey from Conflict to Communion

By Rev. Prof. Dr. Dirk G. Lange   On June 24-25, 2021, a delegation of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) visited the Vatican as part of the journey from conflict to communion, that began over 50 years ago. Of course,...

Abiding in the Love of Christ

By Kristen Opalinski   A Look Back at the 2021 National Workshop on Christian Unity   Abide in my love … you shall bear much fruit.   It was the theme of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity,...

The Orthodox Church, Toward Greening the Parish

    By Rev. Protopresbyter Nicolas Kazarian The Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical, and Interfaith Relations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America welcomes the opportunity to share its Greening the Parish Resource Page with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America....

An Easter Message from the World Council of Churches

Icon with the myrrhbearing women at the empty tomb in St. Paul church, Dayton, US. Photo: Ted/Flickr, under Creative Commons license   But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for...